Alcmaeon of Athens information

Alcmaeon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμαίων) was the last perpetual Archon of Athens of the Meontid lineage. In 753 BC, he was succeeded by his brother Charops...

(mythology), one of the Epigoni Alcmaeon in Corinth, a lost play by Euripides Alcmaeon (King of Athens), the last king of Athens Alcmaeon, son of Megacles, 6th...

Alcmaeon of Croton (/ælkˈmiːɒn/; Greek: Ἀλκμαίων ὁ Κροτωνιάτης, Alkmaiōn, gen.: Ἀλκμαίωνος; fl. 5th century BC) was an early Greek medical writer and...

(son of Pherecles), Thespieus (son of Ariphron), Agamestor (son of Thespieus), Aeschylus (son of Agamestor), Alcmaeon. All these, according to the common...

powerful noble family of ancient Athens, a branch of the Neleides who claimed descent from the mythological Alcmaeon, the great-grandson of Nestor. In the 7th...

Alcmaeon in Corinth (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμαίων ὁ διὰ Κορίνθου, Alkmaiōn ho dia Korinthou; also known as Alcmaeon at Corinth, Alcmaeon) is a play by Greek...

son of Aristoleides. Coastal district: led by Megacles, son of Alcmaeon. Hill district: formed by Pisistratus in an effort to become tyrant of Athens. His...

along with other of the expelled Neleidae, Alcmaeon and the sons of Paeon. Melanthus later became a king of Athens, the successor of Thymoetes, succeeded...

after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by Alcmaeon. 753 BC—Alcmaeon, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 2 years. He is replaced by Charops, elected...

Chronicon: Olympiads of the Greeks. Schoene-Petermann. pp. 191–220. "Archaic Hellenism". History of Hellenic Nation (in Greek). Vol. 2. Athens Publishing. 1971...

succeeds Ashur-Dan III as king of Assyria Aeschylus, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by Alcmaeon. "The Assyrian King List -...

He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism...

Aristotle's division of sensation and thought, which generally differed from the concepts of previous philosophers, with the exception of Alcmaeon. In On the Soul...

titles and associated fragments of Nichomachus's plays have survived: Alcmaeon, Aletides, Alexander, Geryones, Eriphyle, Mysians, Neoptolemus, Polyxena...

king of Assyria. 755 BC: Aeschylus, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by Alcmaeon. 753 BC: Alcmaeon, King of Athens, dies...

a king of Elis Agenor (Αγήνωρ), a king of Phoenicia Alcinous (Αλκίνους or Ἀλκίνοος), a king of Phaeacia Alcmaeon, a king of Argos and one of the Epigoni...

Alcmaeon in Psophis (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμαίων ὁ διὰ Ψωφῖδος, Alkmaiōn ho dia Psophidos) is a play by Athenian playwright Euripides. The play has been lost...

with Socrates at Athens, who warmly received him and had him freed. He was present at the death of Socrates, and Plato named one of his dialogues Phaedo...

century), Christian saint William of Moerbeke (13th century), first translator of Aristotle's works into Latin Alcmaeon in Corinth, a play by Greek dramatist...

Lyceum in Ancient Athens. It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries. After the middle of the 3rd century...

first of Gorgias, and then of Socrates; so eager was he to hear the words of Socrates that he used to walk daily from the port of Peiraeus to Athens (about...

philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An...

to Athens. In later life he was charged with impiety and went into exile in Lampsacus. Responding to the claims of Parmenides on the impossibility of change...

large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from...

[dubious – discuss] Alcmaeon, author of the first anatomical compilation, worked at this school, and it was here that the practice of observing patients...

contingent led by Alcmaeon. On the Thessalian side, the leaders were Eurylochos and Hippias. What transpired after this is a matter of debate: the earliest...

the Suitors of Helen are those who came from many kingdoms of Greece to compete for the hand of the Spartan princess Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda...

which seems to imply that he was an established and active philosopher in Athens during the mid-late 5th century, and that Plato was briefly interested in...

form of a bull, he wrestled Heracles for the right to marry Deianeira, but lost. He was also involved in the legend of the Argive hero Alcmaeon. The name...